Charles Helou

Charles Helou (25 September 1913-7 January 2001) was the President of Lebanon from 1964 to 1970, succeeding Fuad Chehab and preceding Suleiman Frangieh.

Biography
Charles Helou was born on 25 September 1913 to a Baabda Maronite Christian family in the Ottoman Empire, now present-day Lebanon. He graduated from St. Joseph's University in Beirut under the period of French rule in the Interwar Years and became a lawyer, and in 1964 he was elected as the President of Lebanon. From 1965 to 1967 he fought Israel in the War over Water. In 1970 he was succeeded by Suleiman Frangieh.